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Trafficking Awareness Training for Health Care Act of 2015

Introduced: January 16, 2015 See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 10 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jan 28, 2015
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Jan 27, 2015
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Jan 27, 2015
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H618)
Jan 27, 2015
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H618)
Jan 27, 2015
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 398.
Jan 27, 2015
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H618-620)
Jan 27, 2015
Mrs. Ellmers moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
Jan 23, 2015
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jan 16, 2015
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Jan 16, 2015
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

Trafficking Awareness Training for Health Care Act of 2015

(Sec. 2) Requires the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to award one medical or nursing school a grant to develop best practices for health care professionals to recognize and respond appropriately to victims of severe forms of human trafficking.

Requires the grantee to: (1) develop methods or materials to train health care professionals on best practices, (2) make a subgrant to one entity in each of the 10 administrative regions of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to create a pilot program to test the best practices and training, and (3) analyze the results of the pilot programs and determine which best practices are evidence-based.

Directs HHS to disseminate evidence-based best practices on their website and to health care profession schools.
What's happening now January 28, 2015

Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

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